[Ads-l] relish = 'revel'
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Feb 4 08:12:54 UTC 2016
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I take relish in something
>
I'm way behind the curve WRT that one. However, renowned translator,
Benjamin Barron Wiffen, used it in 1865:
There are also others who, being offered the same delights and pleasures,
enjoy them not, nor _take relish in_ them...
https://books.google.com/books?id=A-ZTAAAAcAAJ
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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